David Blanchflower Quotes

David Graham Blanchflower, , sometimes called Danny Blanchflower, is a British-American labour economist and academic. He is currently a tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, part-time professor at the University of Stirling, Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Munich and the Institute for the Study of Labor at the University of Bonn, and a Bloomberg TV contributing editor. He was an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee from June 2006 to June 2009.

British-born, Blanchflower is now both a British and an American citizen, having moved to the United States in 1989. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 Birthday Honours. Wikipedia

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Famous David Blanchflower Quotes

“We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.”

David Blanchflower

Dartmouth College news release 30 July 2004 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2004/07/30.html

“People are treated for mental disorders, they go back to work and they earn wages again. We can see how their earnings go up. But how do they feel about themselves and the world? That has a value.”

David Blanchflower

Reuters article 22 March 2006 http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006-03-22T182115Z_01_L22484112_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BUDGET-BRITAIN-NICKELL.xml